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Thaine @thainatos.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
@austinwalker.bsky.social Hey, sorry I don't normally just @ people but I think S01E07 of The Ghost in the Shell might be an all-timer? And I was wondering if there someplace you might be sharing your thoughts?
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ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
this is why we cant have nice things pay your artists, pay your craftsmen
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Meta are sending Fucko the Knife Robot to stab you in the knee. To disable go to Accounts> Settings> Robots> Knife Robots> Fucko> Opt Out
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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Sekiro is the best From game by a lot. This is not dismissing the rest of the catalogue: however good you think the others are, Sekiro is just that much better. It really is a singular masterpiece.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.
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Dyna Soar🦕 @dynasoar5.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
An excerpt of an interview with art historian and critic David Sylvester which i think feels relevant to the environment artists find themselves in the digital/social media/algorithmic content age
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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I am VERY VERY INTO THIS GAME btw! It absolutely wears its Disco Elysium inspiration proudly on its sleeve, but it works, it feels like a fresh entry in that genre
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 26/03/2026
The art of Esoteric Ebb: aftermath.site/esoteric-ebb-c...
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firstname lastname @jc-roper.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
If this car’s a rockin’ there’s no more room in hell & the dead are a walkin’
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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 15/03/2025
the senators recoil in horror as a wounded Caesar rises from the floor and a second health bar appears on the screen
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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🚨LIVE!🚨 COMPUTER WORLDS SHOWCASE IS HAPPENING NOW COME HANG OUT IN CHAT AND WATCH COOL GAMES! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og6_...
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COMPUTER WORLDS - A New Showcase Celebrating Strange & Distinctive Games
YouTube video by noclip_2
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Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 12/02/2026
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
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Banshee Lover's Rage @annlynzee.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This is fucking sick, I am healed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yE9...
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TVアニメーション『攻殻機動隊 THE GHOST IN THE SHELL』プロモーションビデオ第1弾|2026年7月放送
YouTube video by Ghost in the Shell Official Channel
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
One Hundred and One Dalmatians is a gorgeous film. After 65 years, its design is still fresh. Disney's artists went for a new, adventurous look -- one that Walt Disney himself opposed. We explore how they did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/designing-...
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Morbi @morbi.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 16/12/2025
Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does
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MemCard.art @memcard.art · 04/12/2025
Love the combo of 2D and 3D on the intro to Nippon Golf Kyoukai Kanshuu: Double Eagle (1997) #PlayStation #PS1 #PSone #Sunsoft #golf
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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Getting stuck causes players to explore the world. Dying causes players to think about what they're doing. An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible. We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Part of me feels like Dark Souls wouldn't have caught on if the first game had difficulty settings. It'd be "cheap", "pointless", etc. Arcade games had a relatively granular difficulty option via credit feeding and it played a big part in them written off as "button mashers"/"quarter munchers".
I hit a wall on Last Judge . If there was a difficulty setting maybe I would have tweaked it, but instead I went and backtracked, found stuff I missed, and eventually came back feeling like, ‘Oh, I can actually do this now.’

Gibson: That is the ideal experience.
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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
It's been like 20 years of the internet reading my private data to serve me custom ads and still the best they can do is "this guy bought some chili peppers so he probably wants 80 more jars"
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fuckface "squeaky" from:me @skeet.best · 11/11/2025
BABIES ARE BORN
WORSHIPPING
UNKNOWN GODS

— DWARF FORTRESS, BUG REPORT #13172
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Jason X @jasonxbergman.com · 10/11/2025
My latest at @comicsjournal.bsky.social: I talked to @oglaf.bsky.social! Not the character, but rather, the people who create it. They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR? www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
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Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
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Zophar @zophar.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
29 long years have passed since I founded the emulation archive, Zophar's Domain, on 11.9.96. To this very day, the site still stands as a testament to an era that never actually disappeared but continues to live in the hearts of retrogamers all over the word. Emulation Forever!
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 09/11/2025
Ps2 game likers should be aware that full metal schoolgirl is out now. It's a hack and shoot where two highschool gals fight against an evil corporation producing the "working dead." brainless as heck and feels good to hit buttons.
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lottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
warner brothers trickster figures explained
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Ethan Hawke is 55. Here’s his 9min Ted Talk on creativity. I’ve shown this to my students to inspire them to be true to themselves as artists now & in the future. Refreshingly sincere & just great advice. youtu.be/WRS9Gek4V5Q
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Give yourself permission to be creative | Ethan Hawke | TED
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
@aoc.bsky.social says of Mamdani victory: "A lot of people...are willing to talk about party unity when it serves them, but not party unity when it serves everybody." "We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind."
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/10/2025
centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Cornering you at a party and explaining this while never breaking eye contact
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
lfg
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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
What if I simply close all the tabs and let that version of me die.
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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today! observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
I have started dating a man who is very nice but does not share my politics. Any advice?
"You just have to get the fuck out of there. What are you thinking? He must be incredibly attractive-looking. I mean, what is it? Is he tall? Does he remind you of your father? There's only two kinds of politics these days, and you can't breathe the same air as the other kind."
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 15/10/2025
WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism
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Alexis Flower @alexisflower.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
ultimately ai doesn't pose a threat to art bc it can't get you laid
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 11/10/2025
if you're not where you want to be as an artist or entertainer and didn't come from money or an industry family try to remember that it was never an even playing field to begin with and you're probably doing great considering
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 09/10/2025
Liberal politicians aren’t betraying you they are agents of fascism If you believe they are your allies you will get fucked
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 08/10/2025
TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it
One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Imagine this happening in the UK and not having to sigh 'what do their parents do?' every time you hear about a new band. Wouldn't it be great to hear music from somebody who isn't directly related to the Lord Admiral Wythenshawe Bloodfeast MP, the Butcher of Bangalore?
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 30/09/2025
Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 01/10/2025
the "why I deleted your band's promo email" tumblr but for games and I just post "roguelike deckbuilder" every day, over and over again until the end of the universe
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🎃 Emily 🎃 @emmy.baby · 30/09/2025
Okay, funny bookstore category
Book section labeled "Most Stolen Books"
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AB Normal ✌🏻 🐾 ♥️ @katwoman13.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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Mitch ❌👑 @mitchgit.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Fun fact: Mike Pondsmith, creator of the Cyberpunk ttrpg, was a MechWarrior called Steel in MechCommander 2.
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